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#1 2008-06-28 23:15:10

heleos
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need some awesome help :P

Since the manpage seems to be borked, I'm going to have to ask here for help.

Since maybe a week ago, I got the latest awesome from git, and now my windows seem to be snapping to everything... borders of the screen, borders of other programs, etc. It's REALLY annoying, and I'd like to turn it off!

Also, windows seem to be opening behind the status bar since about that time, and I'd like to find the settings for programs not opening in certain area's...

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#2 2008-06-29 05:34:28

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Re: need some awesome help :P

:-) u can use float mode ...tapping Win+space a few times and u can change the default mode in .awesomerc file ...... but i dont see the point of it though...using a tiling window manager in float mode.......

Or where u trying to be funny and i missed it?????? :-)


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#3 2008-06-29 13:55:50

heleos
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Re: need some awesome help :P

I am in float mode. My first tab is my main tab, and its always in float, for things like pidgin and sonata.

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#4 2008-06-29 14:15:26

moljac024
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Re: need some awesome help :P

u_no_hu wrote:

:-) u can use float mode ...tapping Win+space a few times and u can change the default mode in .awesomerc file ...... but i dont see the point of it though...using a tiling window manager in float mode.......

Or where u trying to be funny and i missed it?????? :-)

Using tiling window managers to be in float mode, using Linux to run windows games with Wine.... How doesn't that make perfect sense to you ?


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#5 2008-06-29 15:51:30

Abelian
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Re: need some awesome help :P

I think this may be the relevant bit of the man page:
       client:mouse_move
           Move a client with mouse.

               Parameter: An optional table with keys: 'snap´ for pixel to snap (default to 8), and 'infobox´ to enable or disable the coordinates and dimensions box (default to enabled).

And floting in tiling wm's makes perfect sense for some applications. For example, it is almost impossible to use gimp without having it on a floating layer/layout.

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#6 2008-06-29 15:59:06

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Re: need some awesome help :P

Then be a macho a don't use GIMP. In fact, don't use X at all! tongue


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#7 2008-06-29 16:37:08

heleos
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Re: need some awesome help :P

Using tiling window managers to be in float mode, using Linux to run windows games with Wine.... How doesn't that make perfect sense to you ?

A lot of programs are better non-tiled. I like the idea of tiled window managers, but I also like being able to use it as a normal window manager.

Also, I used to play wow through wine. I don't see the problem...

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#8 2008-06-29 16:58:29

heleos
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Re: need some awesome help :P

Abelian wrote:

I think this may be the relevant bit of the man page:

Which man page did you get that from? when I man awesomerc I get the following:

AWESOMERC(5)                                                      AWESOMERC(5)

NAME
       awesomerc - Configuration file for the awesome window manager

SYNOPSIS
       None.

DESCRIPTION
       The awesomerc file contains configuration informations for awesome. It
       can be used to configure the behaviour and look of awesome in a variety
       of ways. It can be assimilated as a Lua program/script run at startup
       by awesome. Therefore, it should use the awesome Lua API described in
       the API section. This file is read at startup.

AWESOME LUA API
       Documentation for the Lua API can be found in the luadoc directory.

COLORS FORMATmeans that #00ff00 will draw pure green, but #00ff00aa will set the
       alpha channel to 'aa´ and will blend the green with the color under it.

TEXT FORMAT
       You can use/mix pango-markup and awesome-markup on text properties. A
       pango-markup example: "<span weight=´bold´
       foreground=´#336699´>...</span>". An awesome-markup example: "<text
       align=´right´>...</text>".

WIDGETS
       The current list of available widget is:

       ·   graph

       ·   progressbar

       ·   taglist

       ·   tasklist

       ·   textbox

       ·   systray
Each widget as its own set of properties, described below, that can bet
       modified with the set() method.

SEE ALSO
       awesome(1) awesome-client(1)

AUTHORS
       This man page was written by Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>.

WWW
       http://awesome.naquadah.org

                                  06/28/2008                      AWESOMERC(5)
(END)

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#9 2008-06-29 19:04:16

Abelian
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Re: need some awesome help :P

An outdated manpage. I didn't remove awesome properly from the AUR before I started compiling it so have had that one hanging around...I assume the are in the process of rewriting the documentation.

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#10 2008-06-30 06:30:39

Rasi
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Re: need some awesome help :P

Abelian wrote:

An outdated manpage. I didn't remove awesome properly from the AUR before I started compiling it so have had that one hanging around...I assume the are in the process of rewriting the documentation.

lol.. i wonder how they do it... updating a complete manpage twice a day seems rather hard work to me tongue


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